Comparing regional equity variables to gun violence outcomes

Initial variables to explore: poverty rate and child poverty rate

Questions:

  • How can we reframe this to not be deficit-based?
  • Would interactivity (i.e. a leaflet output) serve better?

Albemarle

Question: would it make sense to remove Cville in this visualization so that it isn’t oversaturated?

Charlottesville

Question: does this look stretched out?

Visualizing Shots Fired Data

Question: which viz best handles overplotting?

(Note, the original data doesn’t include block group info – so by getting that info we may fix overplotting)

Albemarle

geom_count

statbin2d

Charlottesville

geom_count

statbin2d